Orell
orgarten.bsky.social
Orell
@orgarten.bsky.social
Writing about freelancing, tech, and data.

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2FA over email is the worst of the worst. Introduces so much friction into the login process.
June 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
pre-commit-hooks are always a blessing and a curse. Great for some quality assurance but sucks in the early stages of a project.
June 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
All the LLM chat interfaces are crap. They render markdown and if there is a code block in there they just mess up so badly. Also, way to narrow for wide screen monitors. Argh
June 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
People in the MS ecosystem reacting to e-mails is killing me every time. It's email not chat.
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Lol, LinkedIn Chat needs just 3GB of my RAM and is slow as hell. It's a chat. What the hell
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Two things that are universally true:

No matter how remote:
1. there is a fridge with ice cold coke
2. someone with a sticker of a third-league soccer team has been there before
May 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Every time I need to touch frontend things I know why usually stick to backend
May 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Anyone here going to @europython.eu in July?
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Relaunced my website. Trying to do more blogging in the future:

orellgarten.com
Orell Garten
Information about me and what I do and why I do it.
orellgarten.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Why is lockdown mode auto-enabled for mullvad-vpn clients..? Took me forever to understand why I did not have internet anymore
May 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Just posted on LinkedIn. Now it's down. Coincidence? I don't think so.
May 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Magic links for logging in is the worst.
May 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Poetry package manager for Python is just straight garbage.
May 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Schlechtes Wetter genutzt und mal wieder angefangen die komplette Website zu überarbeiten. 😱
May 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Orell
Jammern auf höchstem Niveau: VW generierte im ersten Quartal 2025 einen Gewinn von 2,2 Milliarden Euro (!) aber bläst in alle Alarm-Hörner, um von der Regierung noch mehr Protektionen und Subventionen abzustauben. Und die traditionell distanzlosen Wirtschaftsjournalisten der Agenturen blasen mit.
Gewinne bei VW und Mercedes brechen um jeweils rund 40 Prozent ein
Große deutsche Autokonzerne sind auch 2025 schwach ins Jahr gestartet. Die Gewinne von Volkswagen und Mercedes sackten im ersten Quartal im Jahresvergleich deutlich ab – unter anderem wegen des China-...
www.spiegel.de
April 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The problem with #uv is that there is no time to grab a coffee while it runs.
April 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Classic Deutsche Bahn. Medium demand expected. Train is pretty much full.
April 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Orell
Fick dich, Middelberg.
April 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's interesting how all JetBrains IDEs are essentially the same but some of them feel just so much better than the others.
April 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you go to atomuhr.de to get the atomic clock time, you get shown your system time. 😂
Atomuhr - genaue Uhrzeit in Deutschland die aktuelle Atomuhrzeit
Atomuhr Online - Aktuelle Uhrzeit in Deutschland. Die Atomuhr zeigt die genaue Uhrzeit (Atomzeit) der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB).
atomuhr.de
April 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
First impression of @jetbrains.com #wayland support for #PyCharm is pretty good. Let's see what kind of interesting bugs will come up.
April 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Freelancing is running a business. A lot of people seem to forget that.
April 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you want to see some metalcore music videos which are all incredibly well produced head over to @arisingempire.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
When your are maintaining a git repo for a tool, please include screenshots.
April 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM